You rocked it I would say. Also all three presentations were great!
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You rocked it I would say. Also all three presentations were great!
Dustinβs book project started as a footnote in his dissertation but itβs clear that itβs also connected to his own lived history (the places he lived and knew); both I think important elements of the synchronicity of research. #4c26
Excited to be at the CCCC Research Network ForumοΌ
where I get to hear works in progress - a snapshot of where the field is going. Starting the day with a keynote from Dustin Edwards. #4c26
Wish I had time to watch those shows so I could talk about them! I'm looking forward to your live-tw...er, posting (I just can't with live skeeting) because you are so very good at it! #4c26
On anthropomorphizing language about AI, I'm pleased to say that this paper with @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman is finally out in the world!
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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I almost wish I hadn't edited this book so I could read it again for the first time because, dear LORDT, there's been few weeks in my career more taxing than this one (yes, I know it's only Tuesday).
I need it now
Started watching the Time Bandits series (having been irredemably warped by watching the original film when I was..young-ish. Ok, not *that* young, but much younger than I am now), and it is really fantastic. Maybe later I'll say why.
Two copies of a black, white and red book cover. The cover reads UNCORRECTED PROOF NOT For SALE SECOND SIGHT: HOW THE WONDER AND VISION OF BLACK MEDIAMAKERS PUSH AMERICA TOWARD FREEDOM SARAH J. JACKSON My light brownish hand with chipped purple glitter nail polish holds the books
Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.
The videos can be watched in any order and are intended for normal people, not experts -- there is so much confusion and misunderstanding out there. (For instance, I'm sending it to my students and non-academic friends).
I've also included a very extensive reference list. Please share these widely!
A thread on ZEN AND SLOW GAMES (MIT Press, 2026)
The list of most relevant themes we identified is: 1. Rhetoric of inevitability and technological determinism: presenting the adoption and use of (generative) AI as a fait accompli. 2. Exaggerated narratives: overstating the general capabilities of the technology, or leaving out that certain seemingly impressive capabilities can only be achieved under very specific experimental conditions. 3. Spurious comparison to human intelligence or Anthropomorphism: presenting AI as if it thinks or reason like a human. 4. Ethics and critical washing: presenting AI as being ethically or critically examined but doing so only superficially and inconsequentially. 5. Wishful thinking and uncertain feasibility: assuming desired outcomes or functionality despite lacking realistic evidence they can be achieved. 6. GenAI is presented as indispensable: portraying AI as essential even when simpler or non-AI solutions are sufficient. 7. Unrealistic and ill-defined conditions: formulating requirements for adoption and use that are functionally impossible or too demanding to be met, psychologically implausible to follow, or set unclear boundaries for acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, which could easily create inconsistencies. 8. Resources as propaganda: resources for students, faculty, and other stakeholders are made available but only for incentivizing different degrees of use of genAI. 9. AI Overkill: Substitution or replacement of tasks for which the technology was not designed; from tutoring to teaching to research, everything must be now with AI, even if it is not adequate. Due to space limitations, rather than discussing all of the themes superficially, this essay addresses only the first four, which, in our view, are the most critical and the most urgently in need of critical scrutiny. T
For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel!
Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
I think most folks at Mason would welcome said turnover. When several members of your board are on the Heritage foundation (one of whom literally wrote the project 2025 section excoriating education), such a replacement is an appropriate corrective - we already got βwhat if your opponents do itβ
I'm pleased to announce the release of issue 30.2 of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric Technology, and Pedagogy. kairos.technorhetoric.net
We'll be celebrating our thirtieth anniversary in the fall (how is it possible that I've been an editor for 30 years???)
Great panel all around!
I would definitely read βDecomposing with AIβ!
From #MLA26 session on AI and the βtyped selfβ - Matthew Parfitt: GenAI is an answering machine, while humans *question* - we need to foreground teaching how to question (and sustain the questioning). Whole session has been fantastic.
@writerethink.bsky.social Just saw your recorded presentation for #MLA26 - really great examples and presentation and hope your call to focus on experience and intentionality when teaching writing gets wide circulation.
Useful: Iβve been looking for a good, plain-language source to help students understand that artificial neural nets are very limited representations of actual human brains news.mit.edu/2022/neural-...
I should note that we aimed for a balance of history, how-it-really-works, experiments with genAI, and critical takes on the impact of genAI on teaching. Itβs neither fully anti nor pro-AI. (Although I am personally more in the anti camp these days, thatβs not foregrounded in the collection).
Happy to announce the publication of _Composing with AI_, a new open access online anthology on teaching writing with and in the age of AI. Co-edited with my colleague Nupoor Ranade (CMU), this collectionβs authors look at a broad range of issues and applications:
ccdigitalpress.org/composing-wi...
UKSG webinar: The Open Access β AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? Feb 05, 2026, noon (GMT) | UKSG https://www.uksg.org/events/free-uksg-webinar-the-open-access-ai-conundrum-does-free-to-read-mean-free-to-train/
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
When I see those fake citations, I always think "well, someone wants this...maybe I *should* write and publish it!" Maybe journals should ask folks to create scholarship that backfills the fake stuff with real work so we don't end up with a scholarly record that is entirely fictional...
And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.socialβs Syphilisation)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
It's publication day! (In the UK.) @politybooks.bsky.social www.wiley.com/en-ae/Gender...
I've heard this 1,000 times a day. I believed it until 2 weeks ago. Then I learned that the 2026 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Jobs Outlook report found that only 10% of job ads ask for AI skills. Tell your friends.
This is starting in two hours and it's going to be so cool! Join us! issues.org/event/what-i...
Understanding Generative AI: A Primer for College Writers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer:
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The Center for Humanities Research at GMU is hosting a hybrid book talk for my monograph Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy this upcoming Friday from noon-12:30. Register at this link: chr.gmu.edu/events/17595